Songs that were in the UK top 10 while "Love Is All Around" was at Number One

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'No Good Start The Dance' was way in front until we got to 'Regulate'

^^^

Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 March 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't particularly like any of these tracks!

I don't even want to end up voting for my least favourite Blur song of that era simply because there's nothing less dreadful that I can spot.

Oh wait, I missed The Grid - Swamp Thing in my first read. Phew, I'll vote for that, then.

Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

At least three absolute classics (Gloworm, Kylie and Corona) but it has to be Carry Me Home.

Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Friday, 16 March 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Live Forever".

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Swamp Thing is the banjo one, yeah? That was pretty good. I liked the Prodigy one at the time. For me it's a toss up between Dawn Penn and Manchester United.

Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

(In the summer of 94 I would probably have chosen Parklife, but I'd be happy never to hear that song again now)

Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)
Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way
Gloworm - Carry Me Home
Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate
Red Dragon With Brian And Tony Gold - Compliments On Your Kiss
DJ Miko - What's Up
Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me
Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night

preliminary shortlist. a lot easier to thin down than the Bryan Adams one

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

so - a top 5 Prodge single, one of my favourite Kylie tracks, "Carry Me Home" and "Regulate". sheeit

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh and DJ Miko - so torn

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah fuck it have to vote Gloworm

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

loses marks for not being an hour long but

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's a good choice, I hadn't registered what that was when I skimmed the list. Voted Progidy instead.

Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Progidy wtf?

Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

i say it like that all the time now

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost: I re-played DJ Miko this afternoon. My love of Eurobosh covers is second to nobody's, but this one didn't actually hold up too well.

The Grid's "Swamp Thing" and Two Cowboys' Malcolm McLaren-sampling "Everybody Gonfi Gon" ... banjo-fied Hoedown House at its short-lived commercial peak, there. I still find charm in the latter's titular transcription error.

mike t-diva, Friday, 16 March 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Miko was more plodding than i remembered it, just relistened. Still like it.

Have never enjoyed any Hoedown House, so horrible.

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hoedown House's commercial peak was Rednex surely?

Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Just going through some of these on youtube. I have no memory of that 2 Unlimited song at all.

Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Reel 2 Real one is good (though very similar to I Like To Move It)

Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hahahahaha PJ and Duncan oh God

Doch! (seandalai), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

All amazing:

The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)
Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Grid - Swamp Thing
Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate
Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

'No Good Start The Dance' was way in front until we got to 'Regulate'.

balls, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

It'd be great if there were only votes for nate dogg

John Nestle Harding (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's going to have to be Regulate really.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Got slightly excited cz I though the Gloworm track was "I Lift My Cup" but it isn't.

Great:
The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)
Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Grid - Swamp Thing
Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate

Pretty good:
Gloworm - Carry Me Home
Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft Neneh Cherry
Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me
Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night

Feel like I always vote for the Prodigy (and so does everyone else), and the 90s "No No No" now seems a bit pedestrian compared to the original, so it's looking like Swamp Thing, but this is a choice which needs a few more drinks to get properly into the 90s nostalgia zone.

instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 17 March 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

I love the 90s No No No, the transition from the stabby intro to the skank is like slipping into a warm bath.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 17 March 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also Live Forever is the one Oasis song I have any time for.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 17 March 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Can only really manage a top seven:

Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate
Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me
Oasis - Live Forever
The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)
Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft Neneh Cherry
Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night
Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)

Much as I love Blur as a band, I think 'Parklife' is a terrible song.

Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 17 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Schmiechel, Parker, Pallister
Irwin, Bruce, Sharpe & Ince
Hughes, McClair, Keane & Cantona
Robson KANCHELSKIS AND GIGGS

kinder, Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol China Black, so-called because one's Chinese and the other one's black

kinder, Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

phuturephase, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's one of the few videos for these songs that I could remember exactly what it was like (Regulate and the very predictable Come On You Reds video too)

Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Cannot believe I'm the first person to even mention this. It feels like a sort of high-point of mid-90s super-glossy drivetime pop, like Let Loose somehow managed to line everything up absolutely perfectly just this once. Also, drumstick twirling. All of the drumstick twirling.

William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 18 March 2012 23:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

god "7 seconds" was inescapable at the time

a MEEEEELLION voices

lex pretend, Monday, 19 March 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

"regulate" fells unfair in this context cuz how could anything else stand a chance? like no "lol 90s i liked that at the time" fond memory can stand up next to "regulate"

lex pretend, Monday, 19 March 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

*feels

lex pretend, Monday, 19 March 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

i did like that Let Loose song at the time

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 March 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

a lot of these aren't lol 90s for me tho - i don't really think like that anyway - they're still good tunes

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 March 2012 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

This was a toughie. Regulate, 7 Seconds, Parklife, Confide In Me and Live Forever all very strong singles, and a lot of the others weren't too bad either. Very few godawful ones; maybe a lot of meh "follow-up to big hit" ones.

Reckon Regulate's going to get more than enough love here (ditto for Live Forever in the UK) so I'm putting in a vote for Parklife because I suspect it (i.e. the song) never really crossed the Atlantic and it probably does need the vote.

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rhythm Of The Night, with a bullet.

davelus, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Regulate is the only real other contender.

davelus, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 30 March 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink


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